Recs if you like A Poetry Handbook...

for long-time poetry lovers and those looking to get into the genre alike, these books celebrate the art form, demystify it and explore all it has to offer

So you'd like to learn to read poetry - but maybe you're not quite ready to learn how to read a poem like a professor. These women can help in a less fussy way.

Non-fiction books on the craft of writing poetry.

Calling all poets who can't or won't go back to school! These are books for honing our craft, compiling our collections, and sharing our work. If there's a book that's changed the way you've engaged with poetry or your own writing practice I'd love to hear about it :)

books on writing (poetry, fiction, etc.)

on craft, form, and poetics

reading list by andrew peterson on creative work

Language, rhetoric, character, structure, scene, story, revision, and the thousand small decisions by which a page becomes alive. concerned with the structure, technique, mechanics, process and execution.